2010 Winter Olympics - Belarus vs Sweden (Group C)

[dat's sick 1,002]

And everytime I check out Forsberg he seems to be mildly or majorly screwing up.

He's been okay. Hornqvist is kinda messing up that line though, switching him and Franzen is such a no-brainer.

[Vladifan 680]

He's been okay. Hornqvist is kinda messing up that line though, switching him and Franzen is such a no-brainer.

I figured it almost had to be something like that.

[Hockeymom1960 5,107]

SWEDEN!!!!

[Z and D for the C 712]

Yay Swedes

[russianswede919293 95]

Sweden will be very lucky to make it to the medal rounds...

They have not looked good at all.

[brett 1,029]

see what happens when babs isnt coaching? no comeback

[Vladifan 680]

Yeahhhh, Sweeeden!!!!!!

Whew!

[Electrophile 3,554]

The Detroit Red Swedes need to have a couple heavy-duty extra long practices.

[MannyK 16]

Sweden wins! wow that was way closer than I ever would have thought...

[dat's sick 1,002]

Sweden will be very lucky to make it to the medal rounds...

They have not looked good at all.

Looking good in the group-stage is the kiss of death.

Besides, Canada won in shootout against Switzerland. USA didn't impress against Norway, Russia with all their offense couldn't score more than once against Slovakia.

I loved this game. A loss against Finland now and I think we'll get gold. That's pretty much how we did it in 2006. In 2002 we crushed Canada in the group stage and lost against Belarus in the quarters.

[Dave 324]

Well that game was much closer than it should of been.

Sweden, you gotta move Franzen up, you're retarded not to.

[Vladifan 680]

The Detroit Red Swedes need to have a couple heavy-duty extra long practices.

It would also be tres helpful if their coach put 'em together more. As in, like, WHY is the "Sharks" line having the positive effect it's having? Maybe because they even breathe in sync? HELLLEUUUOOOO?

[titanium2 867]

The Zetterberg line looks like a disaster to me. You have an old Forsberg, a struggling Zetterberg and a seemingly way over his head Hornqvist.

[Guest mindfly]

The only possitive thing is that kronwall looks as he should, 3 "kronwalled" checks and some jump, and also looked a bit like a forward at times

[dat's sick 1,002]

The Zetterberg line looks like a disaster to me. You have an old Forsberg, a struggling Zetterberg and a seemingly way over his head Hornqvist.

I'm willing to bet they would have scored atleast a goal or two tonight if Franzen was there instead of Hornqvist. Forsberg and Z look good together to me, having some real good combinations. Hornqvist doesn't have the hockey intelligence to keep up though.

[Guest mindfly]

Hornqvist is without doubt the dumbest hockeyplayer in the olympics and should never be on a line with zetterberg and forsberg, franzen would be perfect but the coach just wont do his job, that is coaching...

[titanium2 867]

Does Weinhandl absolutely have to stay on the Sedin line??? Alfredsson plays harder and isn't as afraid to go to the net and stay there.

[GMRwings1983 8,804]

A team with Sweden's talent putting Hornqvist and Weinhandl on the top two lines definitely raises some eyebrows.

Maybe they want better balance, but so far their firepower hasn't really shown up, even though they played the two weakest opponents they'll face.

BTW, Sweden has the best uniforms in the tournament. Seems like every other team wears some shade of red.

[Datsyuk2Zetterberg 1]

they need to put alfie on L1 and Franzen on L2.

The sweden coach is by far the worst of CAN, RUS and SWE. He does absolutely nothing (except the last play of the 3rd period when he moved alfie up.

drop wienhandl and hornqvist to backstrom's line and the 4th line.

[titanium2 867]

The one thing I did like about Sweden's play was that they really had the puck on a string at times. It was the first game I've seen these Olympics where a team possessed the puck really smoothly.

And of course, it had to be Denis LaRue that gave Zetterberg the retaliatory penalty. LaRue is still an ass, even if that was the right call.

Can't really watch a game by Sweden without giving my two cents on what the lines should be.

Sedin-Sedin-Alfredsson

Forsberg-Zetterberg-Franzen

Eriksson-Backstrom-Weinhandl

Modin-Pahlsson-Hornqvist

Lidstrom-Kronwall

Ohlund-Enstrom

Tallinder-Johansson

Murray-Oduya

I'd be willing to give the Forsberg-Zetterberg pairing one more shot but if it sputters in the next game then I'd switch Forsberg and Eriksson.

[dat's sick 1,002]

The sweden coach is by far the worst of CAN, RUS and SWE.

Yet he has an Olympic and WHC gold in the same year..

He has said that he'll play everyone equally to start things, even the 4th line got PP time today, to see who shows they want more ice-time and who shows they deserve less.

But if he doesn't start putting out real PP formations and playing the best guys more in the Finland game I don't know what to think.

[Guest mindfly]

Yet he has an Olympic and WHC gold in the same year..

He has said that he'll play everyone equally to start things, even the 4th line got PP time today, to see who shows they want more ice-time and who shows they deserve less.

But if he doesn't start putting out real PP formations and playing the best guys more in the Finland game I don't know what to think.

Why do you deny it, he does NOTHING at all as far as coaching... he is lazy and he sucks... using LGW-language.

[b-random 0]

Zetterberg 2 minutes for roughing? What did he do?

[titanium2 867]

Zetterberg 2 minutes for roughing? What did he do?

Somebody knocked him to the ground and then he got them back after the whistle.

[NGKEIB 32]

I'm fairly sure that for the game against Finland we will see some line changes, as well as dedicated PP and PK units. I would expect Franzén to switch with Hörnqvist. Alfredsson has been excellent (our best player so far), but he looks good with Bäckström, so Weinhandl may continue to play with the twins.

I doubt we'll see PÃ¥hlsson and Modin on the powerplay again, but they still played well. I take back any criticism I made of Gustafsson when I found out that he had picked Modin.

Johansson didn't look like Bambi on ice this game, which is a clear improvement.

Lundqvist should start every remaining game.

We looked better than we did against Germany, and hopefully this trend will continue against Finland, though it is a shame that our game against Finland won't be a do-or-die one for both sides, as those are always much more interesting.